[Grok-dev] Towards Grok 0.14

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Wed Sep 17 23:27:21 EDT 2008


Previously Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> > 2008/9/17 Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leorochael at gmail.com>:
> >> May I suggest a tarball?
> >>
> >> Eggbasket is cool and all, but I think a Grok release should include a
> >> tarball. This could be just a buildout with built-in download cache
> >> that can be setup by running "python bootstrap.py; bin/buildout -No"
> >> (or, better yet, "python install.py"), and it should contain all
> >> dependencies not present in the python standard library for grok AND
> >> for grokproject.
> >>
> > 
> > -1
> > I disagree because it causes confusion. Basic usability 101. Grok
> > isn't monolithic. Pylons and their installation docs[1]  look pretty
> > similar to those of Grok[2].
> 
> I suspect Pylons installs completely through easy_install though. I 
> cannot find anything that's the equivalent of grokproject.

It does. Normally you start a pylons project by using its Paste
templates. That'll pull pylons and all its dependencies in using the
normal setuptools logic.

Wichert.

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